wenatchee river

The festival is meant to celebrate the return of salmon into the river system to spawn after years in the Pacific Ocean.

After an active start to the 2023 season, it's turned out to be a calmer year for water rescues in Chelan County. The Chelan County Sheriff's Office says its rescue teams have responded to fifteen such incidents this year but a majority of them were several months ago during the springtime...

The tips are specifically focused on the Wenatchee River, where most of the distress calls from tubers and rafters come from.

Summer is still six weeks away but traffic is already heating up on the icy waters of the Wenatchee River. In recent weeks, scores of recreationists have been inner tubing, rafting, and paddle boarding the river - which is running fast and cold - and that's leading to a spike in calls for emergency assistance...

Witnesses say that after the raft overturned, Spurell began to struggle, but never went under water since he was wearing a flotation device.

The water levels on the Wenatchee River have reached near record levels

The ambassadors work weekends in July and August to assist visitors at trailheads and river entry points around Leavenworth.

Chelan County stakeholders held a community meeting in preparation for this year’s upcoming river recreation season in Leavenworth Tuesday. Chelan County’s Natural Resources Department, Chelan County Commissioner Shon Smith, Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison, Chelan County Sheriff’s Office Chief Ryan Moody, Chelan County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Mike McLeod, the City of Leavenworth, Chelan County

The PUD would trade a five-acre long, narrow patch of land along the western edges of Horan Natural Area and Confluence State Park, which it owns, in exchange for roughly equivalent property from the City.

On Sunday, a 25-year-old Redmond man was killed while kayaking on the Wenatchee River near Leavenworth.